No charges against trucker who fell asleep, killed boy

JACKMAN— Officials say charges will not be filed against the driver of a logging truck that crashed into a house in western Maine, killing a 5-year-old boy.

Fifty-seven-year-old Christian Cloutier, of Quebec, told police he fell asleep before his truck hit two utility poles and flipped onto its side against a house in Jackman in July, sending logs rolling into the house and killing a boy who was sleeping on a downstairs couch.

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